When the Graton Resort & Casino opens at Highway 101 and Wilfred Avenue in Rohnert Park by the end of the year, the $800 million, 320,000 square foot project will bring a jackpot for diners as much as for poker players.

The restaurant line-up has just been finalized, and in high-end Las Vegas style, the culinary names are significant: Douglas Keane (the former Cyrus), Tony Gemignani (Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, Tony’s Coal Fired Pizza), Martin Yan (M.Y. China), and others, for a roster of four standalone restaurant plus a 24-hour, 500-seat marketplace featuring nine more casual eateries.

Notably, many of the restaurants are local, as will be their purveyors and staff. All the restaurants were handpicked by the Graton Casino owner, Graton Rancheria Federated Indians, led by tribal leader and chairman Greg Sarris.

“Bay Area people are really familiar with terrific food,” said Casino general manager Joe Hasson. “The restaurants are an essential ingredient in attracting and entertaining people, and giving them a reason – more than gambling – to come back often.”

Full restaurants will include M.Y. China, an offshoot of Yan’s San Francisco destination, featuring an exhibition kitchen with wok dishes, hand-pulled noodles and dim sum; and Tony’s of North Beach, which Gemignani describes as “a hybrid, 80 percent Tony’s pizzas, and 20 percent Capo’s Chicago pizzas, baked pastas and chicken.”

The Daily Grill is also expanding its West Coast chain presence, for classic American and Mediterranean dishes, while the upscale 630 Park Steakhouse is a casino-owned restaurant specializing in dry-aged beef and seafood.

Keane will be headlining the marketplace, with a new joint named DK Wings, offering gourmet chicken wings, fried chicken and a pickle bar featuring Sonoma Brinery pickles plus Keane’s own fermented recipes.

Other marketplace restaurants will include new outposts from Scoops/Three Twins Ice Cream of San Rafael, Slice House by Tony Gemignani, La Fondita of Santa Rosa, Boathouse Sushi of Rohnert Park, Roadside BBQ of San Francisco and San Rafael, the Beach Hut Deli chain, the Habit Burger Grill chain of Irvine, and Starbucks.

Keane chose to join the marketplace because he was impressed with the flexibility and new experiences it offers him, he said. Children will be allowed in all the eateries since there are private entrances. There will be parking spaces dedicated for take-out orders, and customers can order meals via their smart phones.

“I’ve wanted to do a casual concept with lots of value for a long time,” said Keane. “I love crispy, hot and juicy chicken, and it’s a new challenge for me.”

Some of the dishes on the DK Wings menu will include a Petaluma bird dressed in Thai chile, ponzu or tamarind glazes. Breading will be traditional style, or a blend of potato and flour for extra crispiness, or a “naked,” gluten-free option with no batter or skin. The price range is friendly, pegged at about $10 per person, enhanced with a couple beers and wines on tap.

The eatery also gives Keane more opportunity to stay in his hometown of Sonoma County.

“I’ve been offered so many times to open restaurants in Las Vegas,” he said. “Legitimate people wanted me to open everything from Market to Cyrus to Healdsburg Bar & Grill. I just never wanted to go, because I like it here.”

Plus, fast-casual is fun, he said, since the equipment used to create many dishes is quite high-tech.

“CVap (controlled vapor technology) controls heat and humidity, for preserving juiciness and crispiness,” he said. “The engineering is exciting, and it has applications for fine dining. It’s a cool new way to do stuff.”

The first question Gemignani asked, meanwhile, was “will there be a buffet anywhere in the casino?” Assured that there would not, he signed on for his 200-seat full service concept plus a by-the-slice option in the marketplace.

“I like that (the project operators) Station Casinos are family-owned,” he added. “They’re big, but very hands-on.”

Station Casinos is based in Las Vegas, and operates 18 properties in the Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson area.